Frank by Amelia C. Adams & Kirsten Osbourne

Author:Amelia C. Adams & Kirsten Osbourne [Adams, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-12T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

While waiting for the boys to figure out the difference between flowers and weeds, something they’d been shown a million times, Frank scrolled through his texts. There was the one he’d sent up to the house just before lunch. Reporter needs to have the talk. She okay? and then his father’s response. Yes. You can trust her. He never would have proceeded without the go-ahead.

Telling Lani about their family legacy had been awkward at best. He’d never shared it with anyone before, and in fact, these days it seemed that they only shared it with people who were about to join their family. The thought brought him up short. Was Lani meant to marry into the clan? Was that why his father gave his approval for her to know?

He was about to text his father back and ask him for more information about the girl when a new text came in. It was from Adam. 911 barn.

“Gotta go,” Frank shouted to Gideon, who nodded. It wasn’t at all uncommon for Frank to get called away in the middle of something, and Gideon would call in one of the wives to help out so they’d always have two adults with each set of boys. Frank took off at a dead run for the barn. Adam only used the 911 code when it really was an emergency, but why the barn? He was talking with Nick back at the cabin, wasn’t he?

Frank was out of breath when he entered the barn and saw Adam sitting just inside on a hay bale, tears streaming down his cheeks. He looked up and met Frank’s gaze. “I don’t know if I can keep doing this,” he said, his voice thick.

Oh, wow. Adam never broke down—something had happened. Frank grabbed another hay bale and pulled it over, sitting across from his brother so their knees touched. The sorrow and the pain that radiated off Adam’s soul pierced right through Frank, and he had to brace his feet on the floor so he wouldn’t get knocked over from the sheer power of it. “What happened?” he asked. He could guess, but Adam needed to verbalize it so he could begin to process it.

“It’s everything we feared.” Adam pulled in a shuddering breath. “We knew we were dealing with a lot when it came to Nick . . . we were right.”

Frank nodded. All the brothers had suspected some kind of sexual abuse in Nick’s past. The boy hadn’t been ready to talk about it, so they had dealt with his other concerns, knowing that it was like peeling an onion. Layer after layer until everything was revealed.

Adam ran his hands down his face. “I wish . . . I wish I could shut my feelings off. Sitting there with him, feeling his betrayal and his horror and his shock . . . I’ve never prayed to lose my gift before, but I did then. I don’t know how much more of this I can take, Frank. These boys and their backgrounds and their hurting hearts—I can’t carry this anymore.

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